Tag: appalachian
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May 28, 2007 01:17 PM EDT --
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July 14, 2007 05:08 PM EDT --
Bill Bryson wrote this book almost a decade ago to document his walk along the Appalachian Trail with his friend Stephen Katz in 1996. Before reading this book I knew the Appalachian Trail was long, but . . .
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May 01, 2008 12:57 PM EDT --
APPALACHIA, MAN: CAN YOU DIG IT?
Turn a furrow and find
arrowheads, iridescent beetles,
pop bottles, decapitated dolls,
carbide lamps.
Dig deeper. . . .
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April 08, 2008 10:12 AM EDT --
GREEN ONIONS
Mommy gave me green onions
While I was yet in my high chair.
I'd wrap fat fingers around green blades
And bite white until I cried.
Now, I ask you,
What's . . .
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August 25, 2008 04:36 PM EDT --
To get ready for our big Boy Scout trip to Philmont, New Mexico we did a lot of hiking and backpacking. One trip was up part of the Apalacian Trial on the Georgia/South Carolina border. We hiked about . . .
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August 28, 2009 11:28 AM EDT --
In Blacksburg, Virginia, you will find a large state University. It's called Virginia Tech. Tech has a pretty good football team, is well known for its engineering program, and was the unfortunate site . . .
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August 29, 2007 11:27 AM EDT --
One of the greatest environmental catastrophes in American history occurs just southwest of our nation's capital. In the coalfields of Appalachia, individuals, families and entire communities are being . . .
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April 03, 2009 06:22 PM EDT --
Our local TV station has been running a lot of ads lately for the need to update the Power lines in the Us. I noticed that they had a web address at the bottom of the screen. Today I checked this . . .
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June 12, 2009 06:30 PM EDT --
I've been thinking about life goals lately. Do you have any goals you'd like to accomplish before you die? Anyone who knows me well would find it hard to believe that I would like to hike . . .
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February 01, 2007 11:05 AM EST --
Darrell's dead. He died because he didn't want to live anymore, if you want to know the truth of it. That's hard on a family. Knowing someone they love would rather be dead in a hole in the . . .
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April 04, 2008 11:03 AM EDT --
SAWMILL BURNING
Butterflies burn in the purple night.
Gossamer blisters twist,
Fall on our faces,
But it's only luminous ash
That clings to our wet skin.
In the dark a . . .
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August 29, 2006 02:31 PM EDT --
We could always count on Mrs. Hattie Rakestraw's colorful character. Five of my boyhood years were filled with trips down the hill, sometimes just to borrow a cooking ingredient or deliver a message. . . .
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June 04, 2009 09:52 AM EDT --
Excerpt from “Sawmill Boys.” Appalachian Heritage, vol. 34, no. 4 (Fall 2006).
For more information about Appalachian Heritage , Berea College's literary journal, and to order back issues, . . .
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February 11, 2006 01:49 PM EST --
Life at the Hillbilly Hideout Part 1
Some people think that we are crazy for the way we have lived for the last few years, and they are right! But I have to admit I have enjoyed the Hillbilly . . .
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October 01, 2007 05:18 PM EDT --
I'm a transplant - plain and simple. I came to West Virginia from South Jersey in 1969. I have lived in West Virginia for most of my adult life and the state never ceases . . .
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March 29, 2009 04:21 PM EDT --
With the help of conservation groups, the U.S. Office of Surface Mining
launched the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative to attempt to rescue
the thousands forest acres left barren . . .
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July 26, 2007 02:28 PM EDT --
Has anyone hiked the Appalachian Trail? Any tidbits of advice you can give someone considering it in the next couple of years?
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June 18, 2009 02:42 PM EDT --
Both the Senate and the House of Representatives are considering legislation that could set in motion a prosperous economy powered by wind and sun with millions of new clean energy jobs ...the kind of . . .
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November 28, 2007 11:48 PM EST --
In my medium/small town of Morgantown, WV a poet died last night. Joey Gatski, a well-known traveller of our hills and woodlands was found dead in his apartment. Joey, . . .
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May 11, 2009 10:38 AM EDT --
AN APPALACHIAN TALE
©2009 Robert C Burnham.
In dedication of my brother's Thru-Hike from Georgia to Maine March 1999 - July 1999 . . .
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